The aircraft careened off ice on the Tanana River and slammed into a hillside about seven miles southwest of the airport. The C-54 was built in 1945 and operated by Wasilla-based Alaska Air Fuel.

The small Marana Regional Airport, which has past hosted famous aircraft such as ... to use the ruggedness of the C-54 ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has attributed the crash of a plane into the ... The Douglas C-54/DC-4, operated by Alaska Air Fuel Inc. of Wasilla, was carrying 3,500 gallons of unloaded ...

Pilot John Sliwinski, 68, and co-pilot Harry Secoy, 63, died in the crash. Both men were experienced pilots; Sliwinski owned Alaska Air Fuel ... DC-4 is known as the C-54 Skymaster.

Rescuers homed in on the crash site thanks to cellphone pings. Good Samaritans helped save stranded plane crash victims on Monday after their aircraft went missing over a mountain range in Alaska.

Seventy-five years ago, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska ... a crashed aircraft in mountainous and coniferous country many times without sighting the crash, even when ...

A loose dog may have played a role in a small plane crash that left two people dead and one seriously injured in Alaska earlier ... lost control of the aircraft as he attempted to avoid a dog ...